A hasty piece of scenery

Tent camps were universally used during the Napoleonic era, although they are not usually found in the wargaming battlefields. During the battle of Gévora, my next wargaming project, camps played a prominent role because of the lazyness of General Mendizábal, the Spanish C-i-C, which allowed himself to be surprised by the rapid approach of the French columns, while his soldiers were atill sleeping. This failure, in combination with his erroneous deployment (cavalry in the rear) was the key to the French resounding victory.
The chronicles of the day talked about French cavalry units entering into the Spanish camps, and these are usually depicted in the available maps of the battle, so Spanish camps were urgently needed. For it, I hastily designed templates for wedge and bell shaped tents in Powerpoint, and built several elements (13x13 square cm) to be placed in the Spanish rearguard.
See the building of these elements in the main web-site.

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